Essays on Atman

Krishna played a key role in the lives of warriors in that he made certain decisions that could not be altered. When Arjuna questions about his instructions to slay the enemy, Krishna tells him not to worry about using their arrows to kill the mere body since it did not matter. According to him, only the eternal Atman mattered. Additionally, if one was slain in his life of duty, then that was okay since he died performing what he was supposed to. Krishna acts of justifying killings were not at all justifiable. In saying that it was good for ...

In this paperwork, I am going to present my contemplation of these Hindu answers to questions about self and God- Atman is Brahman and That One, Thou Art. On the one side, Atman is depicted as one of the most basic concepts in Hinduism- it is the perpetual part of our mortal life. Atman, therefore, is the collective self, matching with the everlasting heart of the personality that after passing away enters a new life: attains Moksha (Smith 21). On the other side, Brahman, the creator of current cosmos, is depicted as the ground of all truth and way ...

(1) When the sages of questioned Self, they eventually came to the realization that the Atman (Self) and Brahman, the source of all existence is one and the same, it was a pivotal moment in East Asian philosophy. Recognizing that each person is made up of the very fabric of the universe is the ultimate truth, and through self-awareness one can come to unification with Brahman. There is no beginning or end to the Atman, which is Brahman. When all existence is Brahman, then the Atman is naturally a product of this very omnipresent existence. “The Atman is the ...